# Aegyptus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iːˈd͡ʒɪptəs/
* Hyphenation: Ae‧gyp‧tus

### Proper noun

Aegyptus
* A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (a3-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”)), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), referring to Ptah's temple in the important city of Memphis. The Late Egyptian pronunciation is reflected by Akkadian 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ /⁠ḫikuptaḫ⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ae̯ˈɡyp.tus/, [äe̯ˈɡʏpt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eˈd͡ʒip.tus/, [eˈd͡ʒipt̪us]

### Proper noun

Aegyptus f sg (genitive Aegyptī); second declension
* Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* aegyptiacus
* aegyptius

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: Echipto
* Asturian: Exiptu
* → Basque: Egipto
* Catalan: Egipte
* Corsican: Egittu, Eghjittu
* → Czech: Egypt
* → Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
* → Old East Slavic: Егѵпетъ (Egüpetŭ), Егѵпьтъ (Egüpĭtŭ)
** Old Ruthenian: *Егѵпетъ (*Ehipet), *Єгѵпетъ (*Jehipet), *Еґѵпет (*Egipet), *Єґѵпетъ (*Jegipet)
*** Belarusian: Егі́пет (Jehípjet), Эгі́пет (Ehípjet)
*** Carpathian Rusyn: Еґі́пет (Egípet)
*** Ukrainian: Єги́пет (Jehýpet), Єґи́пет (Jegýpet)
** Russian: Еги́пет (Jegípet), Егѵ́петъ (Jegípet) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
*** → Kyrgyz: Эгипет (Egipet)
*** → Manchu: ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡝᡨ (egipet), ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡨ (egipt)
*** → Mongolian:
    Cyrillic script: Египет (Jegipet)
    Mongolian script: ᠶᠧᠭᠢᠫᠧᠲ᠋ (yēgipēt)
* → Old English: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
* → Esperanto: egipto
** Ido: Egiptia
* → Estonian: Egiptus
* → Farefare: Egipto
* → Finnish: Egypti
* Old French: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
* → West Frisian: Egypte
* Friulian: Egjit
* Old Galician-Portuguese: Egipto
** Galician: Exipto
** Portuguese: Egipto, Egito
* → Hungarian: Egyiptom
* → Interlingua: Egypto
* → Old Irish: Égept
** Irish: Éigipt
** Manx: Eajipt
** Scottish Gaelic: Eiphit
* Italian: Egitto
* Ladino: Egipt
* → Latvian: Ēģipte
* Ligurian: Egitto
* → Lithuanian: Egiptas
* → Middle Dutch: Egypten
** Dutch: Egypte
*** Afrikaans: Egipte
*** Jersey Dutch: Jâpten
** Limburgish: Egypte
* Neapolitan: Naggitto
* Occitan: Egipte
* → Middle High German:
** Alemannic German: Ägypten
** Bavarian: Egyptn, Ägyptn, Ägypten
** German: Ägypten
** Luxembourgish: Egypten
** → Plautdietsch: Äjipten
* → Low German: Egypte, Ägypten
* → Malagasy: Egypta
* → Old Norse: Egiptaland
** Faroese: Egyptaland
** Icelandic: Egyptaland
* → Norwegian: Egypt
* Piedmontese: Egit
* → Polish: Egipt
* → Proto-Brythonic: *ėɣɨft
** → Middle Welsh: Eifft
*** Welsh: yr Aifft (“Egypt”)
* Romansch: Egipta
* → Northern Sami: Egypta
* → Serbo-Croatian: Египат, Egipat
* Sicilian: Eggittu
* → Slovak: Egypt
* → Slovene: Egipt
* →⇒ Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
* Spanish: Egipto
** → Basque: ijito (“Roma”)
** → Kapampangan: Eyiptu
** → Quechua: Ihiptu
** → Tagalog: Ehipto
* → Swedish: Egypten

### References

* “Aegyptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Aegyptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.